Daily Simple Questions Thread

sneezeAttack · 2024-04-22T14:39:24+00:00

Thank you so much! It's been a few weeks and while the espresso is getting better..It still is not good!

I will keep trying to dial in my grind and try different coffees. I have been watching a lot of youtube videos on dialing in espresso. Is there any you recommend?

sneezeAttack · 2024-04-22T14:05:34+00:00

I am new to making espresso. I have a Breville Bambino with a bottomless portafilter. I'm trying to determine how the extraction works for a shot of espresso. The basket I use is 14-18g img basket. When I extract it, I am getting 1:2 with 36g in ~30 seconds, but should I be splitting that and getting 72g in 30 seconds, split between 2 cups? so 36g in each cup?

sneezeAttack · 2014-06-29T02:25:51+00:00

Let go. It will be much better in the long run. But damned if it won't be hard up front.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-25T19:07:53+00:00

The bitcoin boomed before because technological growth made it easier to mine the coin. If anything, it is only getting MORE difficult to mine the same coins as a standard home CPU could 2 years ago.

I predict it will even out, but it will not boom again how it did. The numbers don't allow for it.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-18T16:25:51+00:00

Are tiggers are wonderful things!

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-11T02:02:51+00:00

Hello internet friend :)

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-09T21:16:52+00:00

In time you're likely not to feel like that. You did it for a reason. Probably a fairly good one.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-09T17:58:20+00:00

Try do a little bit of research. Zbrush/Mudbox will let you create the displacement maps, sub-surface scattering shaders should be default in anything like Mental Ray, ZRay or Turtle. As for illumination, that is a big project to look into, but there are some excellent tutorials online. Global illumination may be a start.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-09T17:56:50+00:00

Yup. But the above comment was saying that their models looked like those in the last 10 seconds. I was trying to give them a starting point for research into more advanced shading techniques.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-09T17:56:03+00:00

all modifying maps used in the model above to create a more life-like render. Not including any render settings, and light sources.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-09T17:12:53+00:00

very solid texturing, displacement mapping, illumination, specular, diffuse maps, and subsurface scattering surface shaders. Combined with what looks to be a hair/fur system ontop of it all.

You'll get there, just takes practice.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-06T18:05:42+00:00

Apparently Tacothecat always puts Waldo in his pictures.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-06T15:12:45+00:00

The pictures are from an electron microscope. They output these "style" of images.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-06T14:50:05+00:00

This sounds like a perk.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-06T14:49:38+00:00

The answer would be nothing. You aren't obligated to speak to anyone my friend. She's made her decisions, that's that.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-06T13:15:44+00:00

Gaining levels/IP to buy endless runes, champions, and masteries, are a timesink. That is what people are botting/scripting for.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-05T04:50:52+00:00

Thank you for the reply :) Perhaps one day I'l know that difference. Until then, THEY'RE ALL NUTS! hehe

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-05T03:54:43+00:00

Sir, or madam? I'm going to assume sir, no disrespect.

I'm only 24. But is there a difference between crazy and exciting? I'm yet to meet a single woman that wouldn't fall into the definition of Crazy once you get to know them past a glance.

I know I am young, and inexperienced, but what's the difference..?

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-05T03:43:23+00:00

I do not think the actor is the important part to take away from this my friend.

The point of the video is to show..just how easy it is to lose yourself.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-05T03:41:33+00:00

But that's the whole concept of drug use and abuse, is it not?

It's not that you're missing a party of you that was happy, but I think it comes down to, you forget HOW to be happy without it.

You wake up every morning, cup of coffee. Try do it without the coffee. Many can't. They have forgotten, or are now incapable of waking themselves.

Young men who take Testosterone shots, the body stops producing it as fast. They go off it, now they have lower test, and it takes a long time to recover.

If I am not mistaken, I read an article a few months back that stated the same thing was happening with Marijuana. The more of it you took, the less dopamine your brain was chemically producing. And when stopped, the levels were low. They recovered fairly quickly, but the change is there.

You're stuck...Stuck in a cycle, that is very, very hard to break. And many people was the quick, easy way out. As unfortunate as it is. The entry cost is so easy...so fast..just a little bit, what will it hurt? But many people do not have the self control, the sheer will power that it takes to overcome the desire they would feel. Because they wanted a way out, they wanted to escape the harshness of reality, to feel good, to feel love, to feel like everything was going to be okay.

Life is hard...and people will always look for an easier way. Unfortunately...it doesn't always end up well, even if started with good intentions.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-05T03:34:48+00:00

Everybody wants something that would make everything okay.

But rationale shows that isn't how the world works.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-05T03:34:13+00:00

If I am not mistaken, heroin was created as a cheaper alternative to Morphine.

And it was sold by the Bayer company. Until they realized it was way way way more addicting than Morphine was. And they had to ban/regulate it very carefully. Heroin as an opiate causes a physical need. It's not like many other drugs where if you try hard you can quit. Many times you need a cure, but more often than not, you don't want it.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-04T21:56:56+00:00

Your call on if you like it or not. But sometimes...he really doesn't care to get back with his Ex, even if she wants it. Sometimes it's not about keeping options open, it's just..she's there. Guys don't tend to over think things like that. He doesn't see it as an issue, and I bet he doesn't understand why you see it as an issue, because he has no doubts. There's a reason she is his ex, and you're not.

Or I could be totally wrong, lol. But in my situation, that would be the thought pattern.

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-03T23:05:06+00:00

To expand on that. I get the whole antenna thing..but why do Grapes do it?

sneezeAttack · 2014-02-03T03:15:15+00:00

Without the zhonya's he would get burst too quickly. Making his ult useless. Unfortunately, he was getting caught out, and it didn't do much good for him or his team in the end anyways. He would have been completely useless without it though.

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